Danny Kent look🍌ed at home instantly in the opening BSB round in Navarra, which played to his strengths having raced heavily in E💫urope on his journey to Moto3, with a rostrum visit eluding him in Oulton Park, registering a best of fourth, twice.

That run of just missing out🌼 on the McAMS Yamaha continued into Donington Park with fourth in the first race and the sprint.

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The shorter race did see improvements pꦇay off - Kent set a new best in-race fastest lap of the Derby track🦩, which brought him pole position for the final outing.

Thꦛough he didn’t keep first, that went to a fast starting Tommy Bridewell, the elevated grid position did enable him to run at the front, but the #52 felt the slow nature of the first laps🍰 damaged his tyres:

🎃“The first sort of ten laps the pace was so slow and then, to be fair, I think it actually caused a bit of a problem for me personally - I think it made my rear tyre pressure drop a little bit, which then caused me problems later on in the race for drive gripꦬ.

A new factor cam༺e into play with old rivals and teammates Bridewell and Glenn Irwin sizing each other op out front, a bonus for the duo behind, Kent and Jason O’Halloran, w꧟ho did not have to worry about chasing down a leader, sat in behind ready to capitalise on any errors as the pair fought:

“The𒉰 rivalry between Tommy and Glenn was coming out the last couple of laps and, to be fair, it helped me a little bit in the last sector.

Kent then came into his♌ own in a race the riders involved described as ‘like Moto3’ - a championship where he took the  2015 title.  Clearly pleased with the progress he has made with his new te⭕am for 2024, if anything Kent was a little disappointed not to feature on the podium more:

“The team have worked mega, I felt great on🥂 the bike all weekend, just a shame that I wasn’t able to get some more podiums this w💃eekend because I felt like me and the team deserved them.

My race strategy at the beginning of the first two races didn’t go quite 🏅to plan but overall I’m happy to come away second it the championship, managed to take a few points out of Glenn in that final race so I know everything is going in the right direction and I’m real pleased.

In my BSB career this is the s꧅trongest start to a year I’ve ever had so, you know it’s just building on my confidence and I think that’s just something I need to improve on anyway”.